Russian Mafia

Her Imperial Highness Catherine II was Russia’s longest reigning Empress, having risen from minor German nobility to ruler of the Russian Empire. Centuries after her eventful rule, Catherine II is commonly known as Catherine the Great. In Russia’s history, only three monarchs have been awarded this title; the most famous being Peter the Great, the father of Catherine’s predecessor, Empress Elizabeth. For Peter, being awarded the title of “Great” was based on his combat prowess combined with…

Thomas Graham’s piece makes provocative assertions about the Russian political history and strong assertions about EU-Russia relations with minimal evidence. Graham argues that Europe’s challenge is with Russia’s political system, not President Putin. He argues that this issue started nearly 200 years ago, with the divergent political pursuit of Western Europe and Russia. He asserts that Europe’s main issue is security in the midst of a “powerful nation”. The author provides reasons for…

The Russian Civil War was a common war battled from November 1917 until October 1922 between a few gatherings in Russia. The principle battling was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was a multitude of communists. The White Army restricted the communists. Different powers battled against both these gatherings or now and then helped one against the other. The Red Army won this war on the grounds that their armed force was better-composed and they held the best domain. After…

was a Russian czar during the late 17th century. He was born on June 9th, 1672 in Moscow, Russia and passed away on February 8th, 1725 in Saint Petersburg, Russia after ending up with a fever due to attempting to rescue drowning soldiers in freezing water. Peter is famously known for positively modernizing Russia and Russian life in various ways. Peter essentially transformed Russia from "nonexistence" to "being". As a leader, some of Peter's accomplishments included modernizing the Russian…

The Bolshevik Revolution was a time of chaos, betrayal and homicide in Russia. The Life of the royal family, the Romanovs, changed drastically. The people of Russia wanted to overthrow the monarchy. Tsar Nicholas II and his family were taken to a location in Yekaterinburg where they would be protected, nonetheless, on the night of July 17th, 1918 the family was assassinated by a group of rebels. After the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family it was discovered that two of his…

Romanov autocracy. Susan Walker describes Romanov’s outdated policies saying: “[Nicholas] had total faith in the age-old formula which ‘reduced the essential elements of the Russian Empire to three: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.’ These sacred beliefs left little, if any, room for the development of new ideas or Russian progress. Nicholas’ close minded and weak nature was, in essence, the beginning of the downfall of himself, his family, and his nation.” (Walker) Like his father,…

The Russian Empire under the rule of the Romanov Dynasty for almost 300 years grew and cemented itself as a major global power, equalling its Western European counterparts. Through massive technological change, the kindling of international relations, and social and economic crises alike, imperial Russia was piloted by tsars and tsarinas to rise as a modern empire. From its ambiguous beginnings in 1613, the Romanov dynasty was born from the boyar nobles of feudal Russia, bearing historically…

Mercy Jane H. Obido September 21, 2015 History of Russia (A1) “Tale of the Bygone Years” Book Review “The Russian Primary Chronicle” also known as the “Tale of the Bygone Years (Povest’ Vremennykh Let)”, “Chronicle of Nestor”, or “Kiev Chronicle”, is all about the key events that shaped the history of Kievan Rus’ dated from 850 to 1110, from the settlement of the Slavs along the Dnieper River, the fighting with their neighboring tribes to the invitation of the Scandinavian Prince Rurik to…

European culture . But much of his reforms were against the tradition of the Russian people. They did not want to be like Europe. They viewed Europeans as possible threats and a danger to the traditional Russian Orthodox faith. Even so, Peter the Great pushed Russia into the European way’s. Peter also constructed cities and his factories with the peasant's near to nothing pay for extreme labor. Future rulers of Russian leaders continued to…

Rasputin, a monk who convinced the Tsarina that he could cure her son of his haemophilia. Rasputin’s influence over the royal family made him widely hated, especially by the aristocracy. Other short term factors include the discontent amongst the Russian people due to the Tsarinas leadership during the First World War, this discontent stemmed from the fact that the Tsarina was German and…